On December 5, Prof. Baatartogtokh Tsevegmed, President of the Mongolian National Academy of Governance (NAOG), paid an official visit to Shanghai Administration Institute. Executive Vice President of SAI, Prof. Wang Guoping, received him and signed MOU after the meeting.

    Wang briefed Shanghai Administration Institute by generalizing its two features: “1+5” group school-running system and education internationalization. The main campus is in charge of the education for Party leaders and government officials in Shanghai, and the 5 branches are respectively responsible for the training in cultural publicity, politics and laws, urban construction and transport, science & technology, and education and healthcare, state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises and economy. With a total number of over 500 staff members and employees, SAI is capable to train more than 50000 person times each year, among which there were foreign trainees from Asia, Europe, Africa and South America as well as MBA students. When talking about internationalization, Wang pointed out that SAI attached great importance to opening up and international collaboration. By promoting international exchange, SAI can make best use of the teaching resources globally. Now SAI has established a relatively stable cooperative relationship with more than 30 official training institutions and well-known universities in the world covering all the five continents, among which there are Harvard and Oxford,. Wang hoped to strengthen cooperation with NOAG in the fields of public servants training, joint research and public administration.

    Tsevegmed said that NOAG shares a lot of similarities with SAI in areas such as its functions, targeted positions and curricula. The National Academy of Governance is under the General Office of the Mongolian President. Its history could trace back to 1911. Since its official founding in 1999, it has positioned itself as an institution for training public servants and providing consultancy for Mongolian Government.

    In order to facilitate the future cooperation between each other, SAI and NAOG signed MOU officially after the meeting.